Biography
Dr. Saria Hassan is faculty in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. She obtained her B.Sc. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She then trained at the Yale School of Medicine and is certified as an Internist and Pediatrician. As a physician scientist at Yale, Dr. Hassan currently provides clinical care, teaches students and residents, and conducts research. Her research interest is in using Implementation Science (the translation of evidence into practice and policy) to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases world-wide. Dr. Hassan has ongoing research projects in the Caribbean and in Sub-Saharan Africa. She works in a multi-disciplinary team bringing together the schools of medicine, public health, management, and policy. Dr Hassan is also invested in strengthening capacity for applied public health to build health systems that can face the growing burden of NCDs in low-and-middle income countries. She is currently leveraging collaborations with institutions in Sudan to strengthen graduate public health education so as to ensure a cadre of high quality public health professionals that are essential to improving our health system. MD Harvard Medical School
Location
Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, United States